Award Circumstances and Date

Prisoner of War Information

Discharge

No longer physically fit for War Service on account of wounds received in Action.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date

19 July 1968

Age

71 years

Place of Death

Timaru

Cause

Notices

Timaru Herald, 20 July 1968

Memorial or Cemetery

Timaru Cemetery

Memorial Reference

Services Section, Row 126, Plot 2

New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

William Bain was born on 23 April 1897 at Pleasant Point, the third child and second son of John and Ellen Isabel (née Burgess) Bain. Like his brother Donald, he started at Fairlie School before transferring to Cricklewood and Silverstream and back to Fairlie.